""" Simple brainstorm to display a config file. """ import os, logging logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO) # import ET: try: ET = None import lxml.etree as ET logging.info('Using LXML.') except ImportError: try: import cElementTree as ET logging.info('Using cElementTree') except ImportError: try: import elementtree.ElementTree as ET logging.info('Using ElementTree') except ImportError: import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET # python 2.5 logging.info('Using xml.ElementTree') finally: if not ET: raise NotImplementedError, "XML Parser not found in your Python." ################################################################################################## CONFIG_FILE = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), 'Documents', 'My Games', 'StarConflict', 'user_config.xml') def read_config(config_file): tree = ET.parse(config_file) # doc = tree.getroot() return tree if __name__ == '__main__': # Read the config tree = read_config(CONFIG_FILE) doc = tree.getroot() if doc.tag == 'UserConfig' \ and len(doc) == 1\ and doc[0].tag == 'CVars'\ and doc[0].attrib['version'] == '4': print "Found valid config file." cvars = doc[0] for child in cvars: print '%s = %s' % (child.tag, child.attrib['val']) else: print "Not found valid config file."